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Speed and Tactics Rule the Impassioned World of Model Sailing MODEL YACHTS ■ Above: Classic Js and 12s sail in Newport, Rhode Island. radios, and I thought, surely model boats can have Center: A peaceful moment between a boy and his toy spinnakers.” Whether you want a strict one-design class, a loose one- their boats are headed for the wall just watch them run. design class, or a development class, you have choices. Model sailing is as rich and diverse as the world of sailing Want to sail through a frozen winter? Take a lesson from itself. Northern California veteran Karl Tulp recalls, “When I David Goebel up in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where the sold my IOD, people at the yacht club pooh- local club sails at an indoor swimming Matthew Cohen (both above) poohed me for buying a toy boat. They pool with fans for power. hushed a bit when [San Francisco Bay guru] Hank Easom bought one, and when [Sol- Radio-control magic ing silver-medal crew] Will Baylis bought two, With today’s radio-control (RC) they shut up.” equipment you can launch a model Some people get into models for the almost anywhere and be confident about aesthetic allure. Some people are born getting it back, providing the receiver is tinkerers; others get in for the turned on. Hello? Don’t think you’d be competition or to drill on tactics. Others the first to make that mistake. RC also PondPond lifelife just like the social scene. Competitive makes it possible to sail in fleets, under radio-controlled sailing is the mainstay. the Racing Rules of Sailing, with timed The author (at right, above) sailing with the ODOM fleet at Speed and tactics rule the Marin County Civic Center, California, and with his borrowed For a few hundred bucks you can buy an starts and standard courses. In the old boat (inset) off-the-shelf hobby-shop boat and find days, free-sail launch-and-pray impassioned world of model good one-design action if you have a competition was mostly one-on-one, to touched the control, and wham. My boat cut hard to local fleet. Step up to not quite a minimize collisions. With RC more sailing, but ducks have the starboard and slammed the boat next door. Left-right takes thousand and you can have something people can play. right of way on a weird dimension when you’re thinking in reverse (it’s (inset) Onne van der Wal very cool, or if you’re up for a In an RC race, starts are counted down not as though you’re Stuart Little sailing competitive entry point in the thousands, the very, very audibly. The only conspicuous change to the rules is that aboard your own tiny boat). And cool stuff is waiting. It’s important to say, however, that a the two-length circle at marks is expanded to four lengths, BY KIMBALL LIVINGSTON overcontrol. Did I mention overcontrol? tinkering spirit can find a development class where a because depth perception is a problem for everyone. Heats Bruce Kirby, designer of the Laser willingness to build it yourself will keep costs low. of 15 boats or less are best. Especially in one-designs, it can erforming my penalty turn for dinghy and the radio-controlled RC Laser, Where is the leading edge in this game? Vacuum-bagged be a challenge to keep track of which of those white boats my second foul in my first race figures that “it takes about three hours of carbon-fiber hulls, canting keels, canting rigs, hydrofoil with a radio-controlled model thumb time to start being right 99 percent multihulls—what do you have in mind? Doug Lord Below left: Modeling legend Bill Bithell and son Larry rig a P boat, I noticed that you can work of the time.” Bob DeBow, dean of model developed a gybe-able spinnaker because “I was watching vintage A at Redd’s Pond in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Below P Peter Nielsen (both below) right: Realism in miniature on a J-class model your way from the front of the fleet to the sailing in San Diego, California, allows people fly RC helicopters upside down with nine-channel back in a hurry. “All thumbs” suddenly that “some people walk backward to keep had a new meaning. things straight between them and the Since I sail big boats—people boats, as boat, but then they go galumphing into my new friends call them—I knew what I trees.” wanted the boat to do. Well, at least to the Thirty years ago, DeBow walked into a extent that I ever knew what I wanted any hobby shop “to buy wood to build a boat to do. But to sail a radio-controlled model of my big boat, and the clerk said, model, it’s important to get this thumb ‘Why not build a model you can sail?’ He thing straight. There’s the left-thumb sent me down here.” Down here was a toggle on the radio transmitter, which purpose-dug model yacht pond in controls sail trim, and there’s the right-thumb toggle, Mission Bay where DeBow found a home away from home. which controls the rudder, and… His story is not unique. When I cracked the lid on model Even after I missed the weather mark (major depth- sailing, a whole world came roaring out. You want perception oopsies, a classic beginner’s blunder), I was still competition? See Appendix E of the Racing Rules and note in the hunt on the downwind leg, with the fleet coming at that model racing is administered by US Sailing and ISAF. me bow-on, sailing toward the spot where I stood on the Want to see a 10-year-old smile? Help the kid launch a little edge of the pond. I wanted to turn to port, and from where boat. Want to see a 70-year-old sprint? Hang out at a pond I stood, that equaled right. I semiprocessed that thought, where they launch plank-on-frame classic free-sailers, and if Abner Kingman (top and left) 58 Republished by SAIL Magazine February 2005 SAIL SAIL February 2005 Republished by SAIL Magazine 59 CHOOSING A BOAT Soling One-Meter East Coast 12-Meter. Here’s a Most models that get sailed a lot way to scratch the itch for a are also raced. It’s more fun to classic look. In a two-color kit, play games. So the question is hulls cost about $450. Then add what classes are popular close to sails, electronics, and gear. EC12s home? A trip to your local pond are 58 inches long and 22 to 26 will answer that. Don’t be shy; the pounds, from any of several sailors want to talk (but not in the manufacturers. middle of a race). If the club has J-Class U.S. One-Meter. Along with more than one fleet, it’s likely that International One-Meters, these each fleet has a different personality. Take time to have eroded the venerable Marblehead’s standing as the understand the culture, and spend time on the American development platform of choice. Class rules limit LOA, draft, Just as in the “big” world, classics have a strong following. An to pay attention to the water and the mainsail-leech Model Yachting Association Web site, www.amya.org. and sail area, leaving an open envelope that encourages A-class boat (above) gets out in Marblehead, Massachusetts. telltales to answer that. If you want to win, you need to Boats of 36 to 40 inches are popular because they’re owner-designers and home Competition was heavy at the RC Laser North American know that model sails need more twist than full-size sails; Championship last November (center and right) reasonably easy to haul around. If you buy a kit, hide the 5- U.S. building. By the nature of the variation in the wind gradient in the first few feet above minute epoxy where you can’t find One-Meter the beast, costs vary (hint: the water surface is huge. Will Gorgen of Detroit, RC Laser it; that stuff’s not waterproof. Here ORCO sells carbon keel from the competition, now, are we? Michigan, has learned this and oh-so-much more, all are a few representative classes. fins for $100 each). Class If there’s high ground, go there; you can oversee the because of “a silly toy boat that I bought as a way to amuse Soling One-Meter. This is the secretary Jim Linville says, racecourse in lordly fashion. If the banks are flat, keep myself until I could get back to competitive racing.” His most popular class in AMYA today, “I’ve built boats for $200, walking and follow your boat. Then, if you’re doing 35.5-inch Fairwinds can be purchased as a kit with radio with 746 boats registered and I know people who penalty turns, you might get the feeling I had, that I was and servos for $350. Out of the box, it’s as simple as they nationwide (there are more RC have bought boats for standing like a stump in the midst of a stampede as my come, but Gorgen couldn’t stop there, as evidenced by his Lasers out there, but not as AMYA $2,500.” The One-Design fellow competitors charged past me eyeballing puffs and recent three-page article in Model Yachting analyzing rival members). A Soling One-Meter kit One-Meter (ODOM) overlaps and leaving me, quite noticeably, bereaved. Hal Lester Gilbert’s experiments with an offset elliptical vang; costs $119.95 plus $129.95 for the comes as a kit for $319 Peter Nielsen (top left), Mark Corke (top center and right) McCormick, whom I’ve known for years in our parallel the vang tightens the leech on the run and adds twist on a (recommended) winch servo/radio plus hardware, sails, and people-boat universe, passed with a wry aside—“Same b.s., reach.
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